Thursday, May 19, 2016

Accounting for Sanitary Landfill: Illustrative Problem


In 2014, the Private Hospital Regulatory Board (PHRB) passed a new resolution (effective January 2015) requiring all private hospitals to create its own sanitary landfill for its health care wastes.

As a response to this new regulation, RICH KIDS HOSPITAL (RKH) purchased a land P 20,000,000 to be used as a sanitary land fill. The hospital also incurred the following expense in relation to the construction of the land fill:
RKH estimated that the land fill can hold up to 175,000 cubic feet of compacted health care wastes. PHRB also requires that all landfill sites must be cleaned up and restored after reaching its maximum capacity. RKH provided a reasonable estimate of P 5,000,000 for the restoration costs. The actual compacted health care wastes for 2015 were 5,000 tons. 

How should the company account for the foregoing costs / expenses?


Note: See the Next post for the complete solution and discussion.

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